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dark brown narrow-curved scales. Immediately in front of the wing base 
is a tuft of lanceolate dark brown scales and another tuft of snowy-white 
linear scales with their free edges serrated. Scutellum pale yellowish-brown 
with dark brown narrow-curved scales. Pleurae creamy with three dark 
brown spots. Wings with dark brown scales the lateral long and slightly 
clavate the median shorter and markedly clavate; first fork cell longer, 
and much narrower than the second, its base nearer the wing base, its 
stem nearly half the length of the cell; posterior cross-vein rather more 
than its own length from the median. Coxae creamy ; femora ochraceous, 
lightly clad with dark brown scales above and laterally, and silvery beneath; 
tibiae dark brown with a narrow creamy-yellow apical ring, metatarsi and 
first two tarsal joints of all legs with minute apical and basal bands; ungues 
simple and equal. 
Abdomen .—Dark brown with basal ochraceous band on each segment 
and each band shows a small triangular projection in its centre. 
Male .—Plumes dark fawn-brown. Palpi longer than the proboscis by 
the two last joints, clad with dark brown scales with a creamy band at 
base of ultimate and base of penultimate joint. The antipenultimate joint 
shows a broad creamy band opposite the band on the proboscis and a 
much narrower band between this and the base. 
Occurrence .—Described from a large series some taken in my bungalow 
and others bred from larvae taken in small pools in marshy ground. 
Remarks .—A very common mosquito and easily recognised by the 
dense white scaling on the anterior mesonotum. It is common in houses 
and bites freely. The male apparently has not been described before. 
This mosquito is included under the list of those with unbanded 
proboscis in Theobald’s c; Monograph.” 
Culex Albus. n. sf. 
Head clad above with snow-white narrow-curved and upright scales, 
a small patch of dark brown scales beyond these. Thorax deep brown, 
anterior two-thirds clad with snowy crescentic scales posterior third with 
a broad central band of snowy scales succeeded on either side by a narrow 
band of dark brown followed by a narrow band of white scales. Proboscis 
with a broad median band of white. Wings with deep brown scales, 
base of first fork cell nearer base of wing than that of the second. A broad 
band of white on first three tarsal joints of all legs and metatarsal joint of 
hind legs. 
Female Head .—Brown to almost black, the whole upper surface thickly 
clad with snowy crescentic and upright scales, low down on either side is 
a very small patch of dark brown spatulate scales outside which are a few 
white spatulate scales. Palpi clad with dark brown scales with a few white 
ones at the tip. Antennae absent in specimen. Proboscis clad with dark 
brown scales and with a broad band of white three-quarters of which band 
lies to the apical side of the middle point of the proboscis. 
Thorax .—Prothoracic lobes deep brown clad with snowy crescentic 
scales. Mesonotum deep brown; anterior two-thirds clad with snowy- 
white crescentic scales posterior third with a median band of snowy- 
white scales and lateral bands of dark brown and white scales; middle lobe 
